Larry Blake
- Known for
- Sound
Larry Blake is a supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer of feature films. He has mixed over 65 features since 1989, and was also the supervising sound editor on 50 of them. Included in this number are 29 features and three television seasons with Steven Soderbergh, plus multiple films from Victor Nunez, David Gordon Green, and the Duplass Brothers. In addition, he has mixed 15 feature-length documentaries. In 2013 won both Emmy and Cinema Audio Society awards for Best Sound for a Miniseries or a Movie for his work on Behind the Candelabra. In 2002 he won a Golden Satellite Award for Solaris. He has written extensively on film sound, beginning in 1981 for Recording Engineer/Producer and then in Mix; these writings total over 110 columns and 35 feature articles. He soon will be publishing separate anthologies of the columns and features, in addition to the autobiography of film sound great Murray Spivack. First up is a book he’s writing on the digital archiving of motion pictures, Solving the Digital Dilemma. Following from his work as a writer, he has curated many seminars on film sound for the Director’s Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SMPTE, and the Audio Engineering Society. He has been a guest speaker at the Camerimage Film Festival, USC, UCLA, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, among many others. From 2000-2016 he owned Swelltone Labs, a post-production sound facility in New Orleans, where he lives.
Filmography
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues 2025
Sound Supervisor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Magic Mike's Last Dance 2023
Sound Designer
Kimi 2022
Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
No Sudden Move 2021
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Designer
Let Them All Talk 2020
Thanks
The Laundromat 2019
Sound Designer
Generators, Noise Reduction, and Multitrack Audiotape 2018
as Self, Writer, Editor, Producer, Sound Mixer
Cliff and Larry: Beginnings 2018
as Self
Cut Off 2018
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Shirkers 2018
Sound Recordist
Logan Lucky 2017
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
Camera Store 2016
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Magic Mike XXL 2015
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
King of Herrings 2014
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The Voices 2014
ADR Mixer
Tim's Vermeer 2013
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Behind the Candelabra 2013
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Side Effects 2013
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Magic Mike 2012
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Haywire 2011
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Contagion 2011
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Love, Wedding, Marriage 2011
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Race 2010
Sound Editor
Cyrus 2010
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
And Everything Is Going Fine 2010
Sound Post Production Coordinator
The Informant! 2009
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
The Girlfriend Experience 2009
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Che: Part Two 2008
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor, Post Producer
Che: Part One 2008
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Post Producer
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans 2008
Supervising Sound Editor
Ocean's Thirteen 2007
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Snow Angels 2007
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
The Good German 2006
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Designer
By Invitation Only 2006
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The Puffy Chair 2006
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Downtown Locals 2006
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Syriana 2005
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
A Player to Be Named Later 2005
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ocean's Twelve 2004
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Eros 2004
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Undertow 2004
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Criminal 2004
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Keane 2004
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Before Sunset 2004
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ball and Chain 2004
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Scrapple 2004
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Straight Into Darkness 2004
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Chicken Party 2003
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Solaris 2002
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Welcome to Collinwood 2002
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Full Frontal 2002
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Coastlines 2002
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ocean's Eleven 2001
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Waking Life 2001
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The Journeyman 2001
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Editor
Traffic 2000
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Housebound 2000
Sound Effects, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor
Erin Brockovich 2000
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The Limey 1999
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Out of Sight 1998
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Credits from TMDB.